Middle and High school for Cap Hill?

[Anonymous]

Where do families on the Hill send their kids for middle and high? Are most families with means going private at that point?

[Anonymous]

Latin and Basis.

[Anonymous]

Walls. Or private.

[Anonymous]

Short answer: High-SES families don't send their kids to Eastern for HS or Jefferson or Eliot-Hine for MS. Some may attend Stuart-Hobson for MS after Watkins. The vast majority go private or move to NW or the burbs for high school.

[Anonymous]

Stuart-Hobson and McKinley HS

[Anonymous]

Private for us or moving!

[Anonymous]

We are only yet at Peabody so I am waiting to see what the situation will be like by the time we hit middle school. There seems to be a large number of IB families moving from Peabody to Watkins, so I'm waiting to see if that pattern will hold. Watkins will supposedly be completely renovated over the next two years, and I'm wondering if that will also make a difference in families continuing through to Stuart Hobson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are only yet at Peabody so I am waiting to see what the situation will be like by the time we hit middle school. There seems to be a large number of IB families moving from Peabody to Watkins, so I'm waiting to see if that pattern will hold. Watkins will supposedly be completely renovated over the next two years, and I'm wondering if that will also make a difference in families continuing through to Stuart Hobson.

That's the norm. Peabody only goes up to K, therefore some families have no choice but to stay in their IB school and move on to Watkins.

[Anonymous]

It just isn't true that "a large number" of Hill families move from Peabody to Watkins, though this was the case a decade ago.

Peabody is two-thirds in-boundary and half white, while Watkins is not even 20 IB% and white. Moreover, the percentage of in-boundary kids at Stuart Hobson has dipped several years running, bringing it down to around 15% from a third a decade ago.

The hot new charter for Hill families is really likely to be DC Global in NW, which starts in 6th grade.

Eastern HS is 0% white in a catchment area that's two-thirds white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just isn't true that "a large number" of Hill families move from Peabody to Watkins, though this was the case a decade ago.

Peabody is two-thirds in-boundary and half white, while Watkins is not even 20 IB% and white. Moreover, the percentage of in-boundary kids at Stuart Hobson has dipped several years running, bringing it down to around 15% from a third a decade ago.

The hot new charter for Hill families is really likely to be DC Global in NW, which starts in 6th grade.

Eastern HS is 0% white in a catchment area that's two-thirds white.

It is called Washington Global and it is in SW actually.

[Anonymous]

It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just isn't true that "a large number" of Hill families move from Peabody to Watkins, though this was the case a decade ago.

Peabody is two-thirds in-boundary and half white, while Watkins is not even 20 IB% and white. Moreover, the percentage of in-boundary kids at Stuart Hobson has dipped several years running, bringing it down to around 15% from a third a decade ago.

The hot new charter for Hill families is really likely to be DC Global in NW, which starts in 6th grade.

Eastern HS is 0% white in a catchment area that's two-thirds white.

That is not true. I know of 1 white student at Eastern. There could be more.

[Anonymous]

Two Rivers has a middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a mixed bag. I know Hill folks who attend Walls, McKinley, Duke, DeMatha (in MD), Gonzaga, Latin and Basis.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It just isn't true that "a large number" of Hill families move from Peabody to Watkins, though this was the case a decade ago.

Peabody is two-thirds in-boundary and half white, while Watkins is not even 20 IB% and white. Moreover, the percentage of in-boundary kids at Stuart Hobson has dipped several years running, bringing it down to around 15% from a third a decade ago.

The hot new charter for Hill families is really likely to be DC Global in NW, which starts in 6th grade.

Eastern HS is 0% white in a catchment area that's two-thirds white.

First, if you search for Watkins, you'll find way too many threads on this, but that's no reason not to start another.

There's a significant difference between the upper and lower Watkins grade; as you might expect, there are a lot more high SES kids in the lower grades. (To try to avoid getting distracted by this issue: by high SES I mean, in general, kids whose parents have college or grad school education. Also, note that the share white and in-bound is correlated with share high SES, but there are plenty of exceptions: Almost all white kids are high SES, but a very large portion of black kids are too; in the lower grades, I'd guess most, but I really don't know. And some in-bounds kids are lower SES, and many out-of-bound kids are high SES, like mine.)

The question, of course, is how many of the lower grade kids will continue. In past years, relatively few have, so even when there were a lot of high SES kids in K in Peabody and 1st and maybe 2nd at Watkins, that share declined at older grades. (And yes, many kids stayed and continued to Stuart Hobson and had good experiences.) My impression is that that's changing. The dropout rate is going down, so this year's 3rd grade has a higher share of high SES kids than last year, 2nd grade has a higher share than last year, and so on. There has been a bigger dropoff at 5th as kids go to Basis and Latin. To what extent that is changing and to what extent more kids will go to Stuart Hobson, I don't know.

- Parent of 2nd grader